linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol.c: move mem_cgroup_id_get_many under CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20191217153213.GC136178@chrisdown.name>
Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:32:13 +0000
From:   Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol.c: move mem_cgroup_id_get_many under
 CONFIG_MMU

Chris Down writes:
>Maybe Qian is right and we should just ignore such patches, but I 
>think that comes with its own risks that we will alienate perfectly 
>well intentioned new contributors to mm without them having any idea 
>why we did that.

s/Qian/Cai/ :-)